Ex-Air Force colonel held hostage in Iran dies in Arizona

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Thomas E. Schaefer, a retired Air Force colonel who was the ranking military officer among the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days before being released in 1981, has died in Arizona. He was 85.
David Schaefer said Friday that his father died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at a hospice in Scottsdale.
Schaefer was a military attache at the U.S. embassy in Tehran when militants seized the compound on Nov. 4, 1979, and 66 people were taken hostage.
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